Aamodt has no plans to slow down, telling reporters at the Olympics he felt he could continue to compete at world-class levels for at least the next four years. "I've made my mark in the Olympics, but I still feel like I have a lot to prove," he said. Besides, he said, with "only" 20 World Cup victories, he had a lot of catching up to do if he wanted to approach Stenmark's record of 86.
In February, 2003, Aamodt earned a record 12th world Alpine championship medal, finishing second, 49-hundredths of a second behind Michael Walchhofer of Austria. "He has not been as consistent a World Cup force as greats like Ingemar Stenmark, Alberto Tomba and [Hermann] Maier, but he has clearly mastered the art of peaking for the big race," Christopher Clarey of the New York Times wrote of Aamodt in February, 2003.
Aamodt lives in Monaco, where he mostly stays out of the media spotlight, training in relative seclusion.
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